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OIL INSPECTION 279


hundred cubic centimeters are subjected to distillation in a flask as described for distilling oil, show not less than three (3) per cent. distilling at one hundred and fifty-eight (158) degrees Fahrenheit, and there shall not be more than six per cent. residue at two hundred and eighty-four (284) degrees Fahrenheit, which shall be known as the chemical test for gasoline sold or offered for sale in this state for household purposes.

Every person, firm or corporation selling or delivering any such gasoline in barrels or packages shall plainly stencil or label on each barrel or package containing the same, the words “Gravity not less than . . . . . . ..degrees Beaume. Unsafe for illuminating purposes. Sold for household purposes.”

Every person, firm or corporation, selling or delivering such gasoline in bulk by means of portable tanks or tank-wagons, or at retail, shall, in lieu of the stamp or brand hereinbefore provided for, furnish and deliver to the purchaser a certificate covering each delivery thereof in the following words, figures and terms:

“This is to certify that the gasoline or petroleum product of less than one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit, flash test, covered by this sale, is unsafe for illuminating purposes; has a gravity test of not less than . . . . . .. degrees Beaume; has been inspected by the State Inspector of Oils and complies with the North Dakota chemical test for gasoline for household purposes.”

Inserting in the blank space left therefor a Beaume gravity not higher than the Beaume gravity of the gasoline or petroleum product of less than one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit, flash test, covered by said sale, at a temperature of sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit.

Any person, firm or corporation, selling or offering to sell within this state, gasoline for household purposes which does not comply with the foregoing requirements, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 11. BRAND TO BE STAMPED ON CONTAINERS] Every person, offering for sale or selling or manufacturing within the state, such illuminating oils, gasolines or petroleum products of less than one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit, flash test, shall stamp or brand every package, barrel or cask containing the same with the name of the brand contained in such package, cask or barrel. Every package, cask or barrel which contains gasoline or any petroleum product of less than one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit, flash test, shall be branded before being shipped into the state, “unsafe for illuminating purposes.” 

§ 12. DUTY or INSPECTOR, OF TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. PENALTY. shall be the duty of the State Inspector of Oils to forward to each of the transportation companies whose lines enter the state, and to the State Auditor, a list of the ports of entry which have been created at once upon entering upon the duties of his office,

and to report to such companies and State Auditor new ports of entry as they may be established, together with the names of the


firm or corporation

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